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VTA (Ventral tegmental area) synapses onto PVT (Paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus)
All claims for this connection- Species
- Mouse
- Result
- absent
- Method
- transsynaptic tracer
- Sign
- unknown
- Evidence
- Although rabies-labelled input cells were present in the VTA, none of them were immunoreactive for tyrosine hydroxylase, so no catecholaminergic VTA input to PVT D2R neurons was detected.
- Source
Dopamine D2 Receptors in the Paraventricular Thalamus Attenuate Cocaine Locomotor Sensitization
eneuro, 2017
DOI 10.1523/eneuro.0227-17.2017 · PubMed 29071300 · PMC5654238, Results, after Fig. 5 (data not shown)Licence: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Named in the paper
- “TH-positive neurons of the VTA” and “D2R-expressing PVT neurons”
- Made by
- an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-10
- Checked by
a second AI model (claude-opus-5-5) agrees, 2026-10-10
“The text states that retrogradely labelled VTA neurons were present but none were TH-positive (data not shown).”
- Status
proposed
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